Patriot Introduces Convoy Series 2.5″: SDD/HDD Storage Enclosures

Patriot Convoy XL is an external harddrive enclosure with the regular 3.5″ measurement on the outside, but inside Convoy can house two harddrives of 2.5″ format. With the integrated RAID controller you can create an external storage unit with both good performance and high capacity. Convoy XL supports SATA harddrives of all kinds and is hot-swappable. It connects with USB 2.0 or eSATA.

Press release after the break;

Patriot Introduces Convoy Series 2.5″: SDD/HDD Storage Enclosures.

Patriot’s New Convoy Series Make Data Transporting Secure and Portable.

Fremont, California, USA, May 27, 2009 – Patriot Memory, a global pioneer in high-performance memory, NAND flash and computer technologies, today announced their Convoy Series Dual 3.5″ HDD/SSD enclosures.

Convoy XL is a complete RAID solution with USB and eSATA connectivity. Dual 2.5″ drive bays hold either two SSDs and/or HDDs mounted in one standard 3.5″ form factor bay. The built-in RAID controller can be configured for performance (RAID 0), redundant for backup (RAID 1) or two drives combined to be one large drive (JBOD). Additionally the one-touch-backup (OTB) feature is a perfect complement of SSD’s robust and durability nature.

”The recent growth in Solid State Devices will eventually derive a new standard in PC storage. While performance and enthusiast users continue to jump on the SSD bandwagon, desktop enclosures remain a challenge for 2.5″ drives,” said Les Henry, Director of Engineering. ”The Convoy Series enclosures were built based on a single-bay dual-drive design which allows user to populate up to two 2.5″ SSD or HDD in a single 3.5″ bay.”

In addition to the Convoy XL, a non-raidable version, Convoy, is available which still offers the ability to use 2.5″ SATA SSD/HDDs in a 3.5″ enclosure.

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